margarine or butter?
butter.
shareButter but shit, butter is expensive.
You're looking at $7.00 for a block, whereas before you could get it for $3.00.
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I'll eat both...but, if given a choice, then I'll choose butter.
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shareHere in the UK most supermarkets do not sell margarine.
When I tell people this they say 'sure they do I have some in the fridge' I bet then they don't. They look, there's no mention of margarine on the packet, because it's not.
Most butter alternatives are called spreads, margarine is a very specific product based on the % fat which spreads do not meet.
I've never heard of anyone who actually prefers margarine to butter. The only reasons I know of that people buy margarine are:
1. It's cheaper than butter.
2. They were tricked by charlatans in the '70s and '80s into thinking margarine was "healthier" than butter.
3. They are an herbivore; they "eateth grass as an ox."
4. They are allergic to butter.
Okay, just so you know someone who admits to preferring margarine to butter: I preferred margarine to butter... until I was 7 or 8 years old!
And then I clued in.
These days, I am so dedicated to real butter that I've told my doctor "Yes, my cholesterol is a little high in spite of going vegetarian, but I'm NOT giving up butter!". Or cheese.
When I was a kid in the '80s I thought margarine was butter, because Mom only bought margarine (Blue Bonnet brand) but always called it "butter." I still remember the first time I had actual butter, and stuff I had never much cared for, like "buttered" biscuits and "buttered" potatoes were awesome when buttered rather than "margarined."
shareI guess I liked the saltiness of old-school Margerine when I was small and clueless, and all I ever did was put it on toast. Because my mother was always on a diet, so she didn't allow butter or butter substitutes or good olive oil on vegetables or anything, so I had no opportunity to discover butter's incomparable flavor-enhancing qualities until I was older.
shareGrowing up it was almost always margarine, except for Thanksgiving & Christmas dinners it would always be butter.
Of course, as a kid, I always thought they were one & the same.
I was working at a movie theatre when we switched from butter to Becel margarine. The Becel was "heart healthy" but that crap left a film on the tins and the counter that needed severe elbow grease and scrubbing to get off. We ended up bringing butter back after a few months. That stuff was so disgusting that I swore off margarine ever since.
shareButter, goddamn.
shareButter is better.
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